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With gross differences in the health needs of the G20 countries it is to be seen how India gets its and other developing countries’ concerns addressed as priority in the G20 health agenda.

Republican India on the 74th Republic Day, January 26, 2023, is witnessing how the RSS Pariwar Union Government is keeping in place an electoral façade, using lucre, ill gotten canny, manipulations of satraps, cautionary threat, outright purchase of elected legislators, false propaganda, even more false promises, the hobgoblin of “enemies” within and without endangering “national security” to grab state power and then proceed to coopt and emasculate all the official agencies whose statutory and constitutional writ it (government) is to preserve and protect the constitutional scheme and the rule of law without fear or favour.

Bhubaneswar: India’s hope of making it to the quarter finals met with sudden death as they went down 4-5 in the penalty shootout against New Zealand, after playing 3-3 in the regulation period, in the Hockey World Cup at the Kalinga Stadium here tonight.

New Delhi: Former world junior champion Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand shocked fancied Indonesian Anthony Ginting to set up a title clash with top seed Viktor Axelsen in the Yonex-Sunrise India Open at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Saturday.

New Delhi: World’s leading badminton equipment brand YONEX on Saturday announced that it will now manufacture high-quality graphite racquets in India, expanding its existing production plan and base in the country, a move which will bring the cost of full-body racquets down considerably.

Bhubaneswar: India goes into a battle for survival when they take on New Zealand in the play off for the quarterfinals of the Hockey world Cup at Kalinga Stadium here on Sunday.

Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar was on a two-day visit to Sri Lanka on January 19-20. It follows a letter by India to the IMF that it supports Sri Lanka’s efforts to restructure bilateral debt. The multilateral financial institution has offered a $2.9 billion bailout to Sri Lanka but the actual disbursement of funds has not started as yet. It depends on several conditions, and restructuring bilateral debts is one of them. Besides India, Sri Lanka has to muster similar support from China and Japan before it can access to the IMF bailout fund.

Union Budget 2023-24 has a greater responsibility of protecting India’s workforce at a time when they are at high risk of being forced into accepting lower quality jobs, as warned by ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO) Trend 2023, large scale job cuts is adding into the woes of the employed, unemployment rate have been rising, and job opportunities are set to shrink considerably.

Moderate Muslims and militant Hindu nationalists are strange bedfellows at the best of times, particularly when they come together to reshape Hindu-Muslim relations in troubled India.

The Modi government wants a stranglehold on the media. Period. Be it regular media outlets or citizen journalism on social media. The government does not want bad press. It does not tolerate criticism of “government policies, programmes, initiatives and achievements”. It will do anything to avoid taking hits on the chin. It has a glass jaw. So, it has weaponized the Press Information Bureau (PIB).